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Franks to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

clear winter night; stars twinkled brightly in the sky above.

The trees below bore white sleeves like strange, ghostly figures frozen to the spot in the icy landscape. It was the kind of night – for anyone with an ounce of sense – to stay indoors beside a roaring fire, though some did not take heed…

A young girl walked

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

—Aristotle: Politics

Discovery is seeing what everyone else saw and thinking what no one thought.

He recognized the dangers involved in spinning theories too quickly and then, perhaps subtly and unwittingly, twisting facts to suit theories rather than constructing theories to account for the facts.

Holmes trained himself to see what others would overlook, a talent that didn't merely come naturally, but with intentionality and due diligence.

Healthy skepticism about appearances tends to be a salient feature of any credible epistemologist.

10 Sometimes reading, Holmes realized, is the most practical course of action of all, a sentiment likely echoed by anyone who's ever had occasion to teach a philosophy course.

He would habitually make reference to analogues from the history of crime, and on occasion be fairly sure of the outcome of his investigation from its outset because of its conspicuous resemblance to its precedents.